Yo feliz en medio de tanta tristeza. No es un lamento, ¿qué sería del mundo si así fuera? Es la certidumbre de que solo hombres felices pueden hacer un mundo feliz.
“And teacher Bertolt Brecht,
communist, German playwright and poet
(in that order) wrote:
“What’s a bank robbery
compared with the crime
of the establishment of a bank?”
― Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
communist, German playwright and poet
(in that order) wrote:
“What’s a bank robbery
compared with the crime
of the establishment of a bank?”
― Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
“Scientists sometimes deceive themselves into thinking that philosophical ideas are only, at best, decorations or parasitic commentaries on the hard, objective triumphs of science, and that they themselves are immune to the confusions that philosophers devote their lives to dissolving. But there is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
“No olvides nunca
que los menos fascistas
de entre los fascistas
también son
fascistas.”
― Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
que los menos fascistas
de entre los fascistas
también son
fascistas.”
― Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
“Advice That Is No Longer Necessary Anywhere in the World but Here in El Salvador . . . Don’t ever forget
that the least fascist
among fascists
also are
fascists.”
― Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
that the least fascist
among fascists
also are
fascists.”
― Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
“We can’t conserve anything, and especially not social relations, without altering their nature, arresting some part of their interaction with time in an unnatural way. Just look at what conservatives make of the environment: their idea of conservation is to extract, pillage and destroy, ‘because that’s what we’ve always done’—but because of that very fact, it’s no longer the same earth we do it to.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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